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Stuff to Rescue Newshub?

Stuff to Rescue Newshub?

Apparently, Stuff has come riding to the rescue of Newshub, inking a deal to produce news for the failing network. Presumably, Sinead Boucher came riding in on a dead horse: The 6pm TV3 news has been saved – but it will have a totally new look and will be provided by

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Iran Has Kicked a Hornets’ Nest

Ran Porat Affiliate Researcher, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University Close to midnight on April 13, hundreds of military drones were launched from both Iran and Iraq toward Israel. Subsequently, several waves of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and rockets followed, originating from Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon – all

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What Iran Really Won

What Iran Really Won

The world is at the most critical crossroads, with the weakest Western leadership, since 1938. At least Chamberlain and Daladier had the poor excuse of desperately doing anything, giving Hitler everything, in order to avoid war. Joe Biden and Antiono Guterres, and closer to home, Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong,

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U.S. Official’s Easter-In-China Post Stirs Ire at Home

Susan Crabtree Susan Crabtree is RealClearPolitics’ national political correspondent. realclearwire.com A simple social media post from a U.S. ambassador praising a Catholic Easter service would go largely unnoticed in the countries of many U.S. allies. But in China, where churches, synagogues, and mosques must be sanctioned and

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Australia Reels From the Bondi Attack

Australia Reels From the Bondi Attack

Terry Goldsworthy Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University There are few scenes more shocking than random acts of extreme violence against people simply going about their daily lives. Yet this is what Australians are coming to terms with after a man went on a rampage through a

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NZ’s Mental Healthcare Is in Crisis

NZ’s Mental Healthcare Is in Crisis

Melanie Woodfield HRC Clinical Research Training Fellow Hiran Thabrew Senior Lecturer in Child Psychiatry and Paediatrics University of Auckland New Zealand’s youth mental healthcare continues to experience a rolling crisis with long waiting times for services. There have been calls to expand the mental health workforce and to diversify

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The Growth of Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Since 2020

The Growth of Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Since 2020

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com “The anti-vax group has grown a lot in New Zealand, and I think it’s been driven by really appalling misinformation.” Prof Michael Baker This recent statement by Prof Michael Baker deserves a comment. It’s true but perhaps not in

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Luxon and Peters: ‘Shocking and Illegal Strikes against Israel’

Luxon and Peters: ‘Shocking and Illegal Strikes against Israel’

Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters have condemned Iran’s “shocking and illegal strikes against Israel.” The Middle East has been plunged

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Why Is It No One’s Fault?

Why Is It No One’s Fault?

Tani Newton Perhaps I should be more forgiving but I have not forgotten the sort of verbal abuse I endured in 2020 for pointing out that the economy was being ruined for no purpose. Now the economy has been ruined for no purpose and most people are still living in

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Science? You Be the Judge

Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits

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I Would Have Thought There Were More Important Things to Do
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I Would Have Thought There Were More Important Things to Do

Yesterday the Government announced a vitally important policy…a policy that is needed before any other policies or law changes…a policy to allow renters to have pets. Seriously, that’s exactly what Chris Bishop and David Seymour think is vitally important legislation, right now! The Government says it is

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But the Data Doesn’t Lie

But the Data Doesn’t Lie

Eyal Shahar Dr Eyal Shahar is a professor emeritus of public health in epidemiology and biostatistics. His research focuses on epidemiology and methodology. In recent years, Dr Shahar has also made significant contributions to research methodology, especially in the domain of causal diagrams and biases. brownstone.org It was an

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If You Don’t Fight, You Lose

If You Don’t Fight, You Lose

As I wrote for The BFD recently, for a supposed libertarian, David Seymour sure loved some naked authoritarianism when it came to lockdowns and vaccines. As for Christopher Luxon, he’s as wet as slow-boiled kale when it comes to green-left dogmas like climate change. So-called ‘conservatives’ in Australia aren’

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But White Farmers Matter, Too!

But White Farmers Matter, Too!

John Klar libertynation.com The Biden administration’s assault on farmers now includes an openly racist and sexist dimension: allocating $25 billion in federal disaster relief funds to stricken farmers based solely on race and gender. The USDA has dispensed funds using this social justice criterion, employing skin color and

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